Coverack - West Cornwall - Lizard Peninsula

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Coverack
West Cornwall - Lizard Peninsula

Coverack on the southern edge of the Lizard Peninsula, is a small picturesque fishing village built on two sides of a spur of rock that juts out into the sea.

Coverack has a large, sheltered, crescent shaped beach which is is ideal for swimming & windsurfing. Fishing boats and pleasure craft shelter in Coverack's small harbour - built out of the local green serpentine rock ( some of the oldest geological strata known to exist).

Coveracks quiet harbour, seems a peaceful and sheltered place on a sunny summer's afternoon - but the photographs in the bar of the Paris Hotel show just how devastating a storm here can be.

The hotel is named after an American passenger liner which ran aground off Lowland Point in 1899.

There was no loss of life on that occasion, but only a year before that the steamship Mohegan was wrecked on the dreaded Manacle Rocks beyond Lowland Point and 106 people were drowned.

Soon after that a lifeboat was stationed at Coverack (the stout lifeboat house built just by the harbour) because, as was said at the time, 'the fishermen of this village are familiar with the Manacles and the boat could be launched in all waters'.

Coverack is the ideal holiday location for watersports such as snorkelling, scuba diving and windsurfing.